Coldplay reveal Barack Obama features on ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’

Chris Martin cribs the US President singing at a funeral for Charleston shooting victim

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has revealed US President Barack Obama will feature on their forthcoming new album.

The White House apparently granted the recording which comes from Obama singing at the funeral of Charleston shooting victim Clementa C. Pinckney earlier this year. The vocal will be used on the record’s title track ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’.

Martin told The Sun: “We have a tiny clip of the president singing ‘Amazing Grace’ at that church. Because of the historical significance of what he did and also that song being about, ‘I’m lost but now I’m found’.”

The band recently performed two new songs at a gig in Los Angeles on Saturday night (November 21).

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The four-piece headlined the Belasco Theatre in a gig which was live streamed via streaming service Tidal. Coldplay had been due to play the gig last Friday (November 13) but pulled out following the violent attacks in Paris that same night.